Subj : ncurses
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Mon Sep 11 2017 23:57:51

Hey Nicholas!

 NB> The latest version on github is now ncurses-6.0+20170909-1

I am using the original GNU release which at ftp.gnu.org the datetime stamp 
shows "Aug 09  2015".  Currently I am not patching it.  Also at one point I was 
using the "--with-abi-version=5" when building but that was a couple years ago 
and since then most of the apps requiring libncurses have long since caught up 
to the changes and I would have to rebuild them in order to properly check and 
make sure the version-reversion doesn't break anything.

 NB> Golded does indeed have a compile option for wide ncurses support

I seem to recall that and as of my last attempt with golded none of it worked.  
I may try again if I use the "--with-abi-version=5" option in the future.  
Definetly thinking about it.

 NB> I'd be interested in knowing what the kernel people did for the
 NB> menuconfig app

Me too and might actually trace the change(s) from a kernel version prior to 
the release of 6.0 and compare that to a new kernel version's menuconfig usage.

 NB> Archlinux IRC I get responses like:

Not quite as bad as some of the responses seen on Ubuntu wikis.  For far too 
many of them even an xterm is unheard of.  Kids these days eh?  :::sigh:::

If I break down and try a --with-abi-version=5 default ncurses I'll let you 
know if that fixes the golded issue.  Also if it doesn't break anything else of 
greater importance I may go back to that instead.  I personally don't use 
ncurses so it really doesn't matter to me but there are apps I do care about 
that do and as long as they are happy with 5.9 then that might be the best way 
to proceed.

I have my doubts though.

Life is good,
Maurice

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